Well it has been awhile since my last post and my apologies. Life has turned upside down with work, school, and family but that is the cycle of life. I have been busy preparing for graduation in May as I start and fly through my student teaching experience. I can't believe it is already the second week of my teaching experience and how fast it went by. Student teaching is proving to be a lot of work and with 21 students with all different needs it is rather tiring. With lesson plans, grading assignments and tests, and keeping parents and fellow educators in the loop on students it becomes a plethora of work. I come home from school and am physically and mentally exhausted.

Thinking back of how fast my college experience has gone by it is rather scary. I am preparing to be a big girl and am rather terrified. I think about where I will be teaching and what grade everyday and I have no clue where life will take me. All I can do is enjoy the moment and embrace the experiences I am gaining everyday as I teach 2nd grade students.

Some days I come home and cry thinking I can't do this, I'm not meant to be a teacher, I can't teach these kids. And then there are days that I impress myself with the content that I teach the children. I have to remind myself that my cooperating teacher has been teaching for 20 plus years and I am clearly not that good. It is very insightful watching her teach children with such ease. She is such a natural and enlightens the students daily. I feel I sometimes get up in front of them and have no clue what I'm doing or if I am even teaching them anything relevant.
All I know is that student teaching has taught me so much in a matter of 2 weeks, more than any class could ever teach.

Well I must get back to lesson plans and grading spelling tests so until next time, take care!

"To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first." *Shakespeare